News

Soara Homages Resilience Of Thought-Leaders With Bengali Heavy Metal On 'Bishad'

Comprised of guitarist Akhilesh Rao and vocalist Pritam Adhikary, who replaces Kartik Subramanian in the outfit, Mumbai and Siliguri-rooted San Francisco-based band Soara has just released 'Bishad', the first single off their upcoming album 'Moksh'. In line with their previous reflections on acid...

'BASS BOSS': Rana Ghose's Latest Documentary Spotlights DJ Khobir & Bengal's Dek Bass Culture

Rana Ghose, the head honcho behind leftfield music platform REProduce and a filmmaker who has...

Call For Applications: Studio Monkey Shoulder Returns With A £10,000 Grant To Support Music Scenes

Last Year, the Scottish whiskey brand Studio Monkey joined hands with prominent selector Gilles...

Pranav Nigam Debuts Lani.Akea With Ambient Album 'Songs To Sleep To Vol. 2'

New Delhi's Pranav Nigam puts out his first release as the ambient act Lani.Akea with the album...

FILM Homages Venues antiSOCIAL, JUNA & BudXLoft With Namesake 3-Track EP

New Delhi artist Sanil Sudan aka FILM (who also produces under the moniker Tyrell Dub Corp) just...

Features

Review: Gauley Bhai’s Sophomore Album ‘Sunbari’ Bridges Community Roots With Sonic Refinement

It’s remarkable that in the age when artists are constantly advised to punctuate every few months with a release (and it seems like most big names do) to keep bending audience and industry infrastructures in their favour, Gauley Bhai held back their sophomore album for nearly 6 years, offering...

Review: 'Kali' Sees Ditty Blending Protest With Intimate Truths

Evidently, it’s tricky to carry the torch from protest-driven beat poetry-inspired folk singer-songwriters like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan without sounding like a tribute to the said acts and their times – evident from the ever-refreshing list of acts that fall in that trap. Aditi Veena aka Ditty...

Mixes

Wild City #248: Sheral

New Delhi DJ Sheral doesn't wait for a build-up on our latest Wild City mix, entering above 140 BPM...

Wild City #247: Roan Sable

Roan Sable's Wild City mix is the kind that makes listeners reach for Shazam time and time again....

Wild City #246: EveryNowHere

When T.L. Mazumdar aka EveryNowHere started the podcast series Tapasya Loading in 2020, one of his...

Wild City #245: Pale Blue Dotter

With field recordings of birds and frogs stitched between transient meanderings of synths and...

Wild City #244: SourFunk

Bangalore's Vaibhav S Narayan aka SourFunk's Wild City mix is for the point where the dancers for...

Wild City #243: Zequenx

Born in Kashmir and operating between Goa and New Delhi, Zainab Wani aka Zequenx is in the midst of...